Chandrakant Patil accuses Satej Patil of threatening Sonia Gandhi as Mahayuti rallies in Kolhapur

Voting is under way in Kolhapur for the election of the Gokul chairman. During this time, the Mahayuti held a large rally in the city, which later turned into a public meeting. Addressing it, BJP leader Chandrakant Patil made a direct and serious allegation against Satej Patil, also known as Bunty. He said Bunty Patil had been blackmailing Sonia Gandhi.

According to Chandrakant Patil, 166 Mahayuti members had been elected and 144 were needed for a majority in the Assembly. At that time, Bunty Patil was leading a faction of the Congress. He claimed that Bunty Patil had gone into hiding in Jaipur with the help of Sharad Pawar. Chandrakant Patil said Bunty Patil had threatened Sonia Gandhi that if a government was not formed with the Shiv Sena and Sharad Pawar, he would break away a group of 40 and join the government.

Chandrakant Patil said, "You stole the entire Shiv Sena, the Shiv Sena and BJP who had to ask for votes carrying Modi's photograph. Then you trampled the mandate underfoot and formed the Uddhav Thackeray government. I know everything. If needed, I am ready to hand over the call records. You had a video call with Sonia Gandhi. You were threatening her then."

He went on to say there is a man in Kolhapur who is the only person in the country who calls Sonia Gandhi simply "Sonia". According to Chandrakant Patil, this man told him about it. He said the man phoned Sonia Gandhi in front of him and put the phone on speaker. The man said, "Sonia, this is not going well." Chandrakant Patil claimed that Sonia Gandhi then said that Bunty from Kolhapur was threatening her and saying he would form a group.

Chandrakant Patil said, "You were threatening Sonia Gandhi. This is called vote theft. That theft of the mandate is acceptable, but Eknath Shinde walking out is not? It is right when you do it, wrong when Mushrif does it? This will not go on now. This bullying will not go on." In this way he issued a warning.

Chandrakant Patil also said Bunty Patil wants to become chief minister, but that requires a certain kind of maturity. He said that recently Bunty Patil had been asking whether Mahadik should be called Munnasaheb or Dhananjay Mahadik. He said he had felt that even if Bunty Patil was an opponent, there was no reason to call him Bunty, but that in 15 days he had understood that he is Bunty, and never became "Bunty Saheb".

Taking a dig, he said a child gets irritated if he does not get a toy. In Chandrakant Patil's words, this has been going on for 15 days: because the Gokul chairman's post was not won, the frustration is being taken out on Mushrif, and on Chandrakant Patil. He said it is because of such behaviour that you remained Bunty.